Where to?

I know we've been confusing a lot of people as to where we are going to take the next job. This post is to explain where we're at.
We have narrowed our choices down to Milwaukee, WI or Grand Rapids, MI. We were a little bummed to find out that Milwaukee with be starting to cover the Marshfield hospital. It's 3 hours away so Chuck would be away from home for a few days every couple of months.
Because of that, after our interview with Grand Rapids we were really excited about that possibility despite that it's the furthest of the options from home. The practice set up is very enticing and we were pleasantly surprised with the city. We both really thought that is where we would end up. I came to terms with the distance, fell in love with a gorgeous house and truly started to get excited about our move to Grand Rapids.

Then, the other week Chuck returned from conference where he was able to brain storm with a lot of people in different stages of their career. This made him realize that even though it stinks that he will have to help cover in Marshfield, he really needs to be at an academic hospital (Grand Rapids is private practice). The contract with Marshfield will probably only be for a couple of years and the positives of being in Milwaukee far out weigh that negative. So, now we think we are going to be moving to Milwaukee :)

Nothing is set in stone and we haven't signed a contract yet. He has his second interviews with both hospitals in the coming weeks. He'll receive the contracts then for us to review and make our final decision.

This is the short explanation of where we're at but I hope this cleared up some of the confusion with some of you. Stay tuned. We're still on track to make it official by Christmas!